Opening 1 Les Miserables

Les Miserables Opening

Release date: 25 December 2012 (USA)

Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Tom Hooper

Writers: William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Victor Hugo (Novel)

Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anna Hathaway

Budget: $61,000,000

Gross: $441,809,770 

Production Co: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Working Title, Cameron Mackintosh

Time	Film info
0 -0:18	Image- Universal Intro Sound- Faint non-diegetic sound of drums
0:19 - 0:25	Image- Camack International Intro Sound- Drums in the background getting louder
0:26 - 0:36	Image- Working Title Into Sound- Drums still low but increasing in volume
0:41	Image- Camera under water, water dirty and filled with debre, flag in the water, scratched and dirty suggesting a battle. Sound- Drums sound like they are being played above the water.
0:44	Image- Text giving a small intro, they year is in a big fonts implying the year may change. Camera slowly racing from the water, getting closer to flag. Sound- Drums are intensifying.
0:56	Image- Establishing shot, camera emerges from the water, raining and dark clouds suggesting vulnerability/sadness. Sound- Non-diegetic music starts playing at full volume.
1:09	Image- Birds eye view, very dark and sad. Humans looks like ants compered to ship. Sound- Diegetic waves hitting the ship and bay while non-diegetic music is playing.
1:19	Image- Birds eye view of slaves working. Camera moving closer to the slaves, waves crashing over slaves. Sound- Music still playing. Diegetic waves.
1:32	Image- Medium Long shot of Jean Valjean. Can see his dirty and ripped clothes as well as his long unclean beard. 100ds of slaves in the background, some with bloody and scared faces. Sound- new music starts playing non-diegetecly. Diegetic waves crash over slaves as well as slaves grunting simultaneously.
1:36	Image- POV of a wave hitting a slave. Sound- The wave hitting
1.44	Image- Medium closes up of Jean as he’s pulling the rope. His eyes are looking up. Sound- Non-Diegetic music, Diegetic waves and grunting.
1:45-1:54	Smart editing technic, when Jean is looking up it re directs the audience to a low angle view of Javert. Image- Low angle long shot, camera slowly moving to a medium close up. The background is dark and it’s raining giving the idea he is the antagonist. He is wearing clean blue clothes telling the audience he is important. He is holding a used wooden baton giving the impression he is strict and violent. Sound- Non-Diegetic loud and intense music as well as men grunting, Diegetic wind.
1:55	Image- Medium shot. High angle showing Jean is less powerful then Javert. Shots open with wave clearing. Sound- Non- Diegetic music, Diegetic singing.
1:56-2:33	Continuity shot of Jean looking at Javert and Javert looking at the slaves, as well as a camera focusing on the singers which varies from different slaves. Sound- The non-diegetic music is playing over the slaves singing.
2:36	Out of focus shot looking at slaves working as they sing on.
2:39	Image- Extreme Long shot of slaves pulling in the ship to the harbor. Sound- waves crashing in as they sing
2:51	Image- over the shoulder of Javert looking down at the slaves. He is seen as the dominant, his posture backs this up.
2:54	Camera is looking down at the slaves feet as there chains scrape the floor and there sloppy dirty feet walk over the French flag which is being disrespected.
2:55	Canted camera looking down at the slaves just like they are singing.  Clear Image of a dirty wet French flag.
3:13	Javert disrespects Jean when he tells him to retrieve a flag without any help. You can see on Javerts facial expression he likes his job.
3:28	The non-diegetic music gets very intense when Jean grunts to lift the flag.
4:48	Continuity shots, over the shoulder as Javert and Jean are having their conversation.